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Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States by Maya Schenwar

2 reviews

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Deportation, Classism, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Hate crime, Torture, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Drug use, Domestic abuse, and Child death

whatannikareads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

4.5/5!

Very informative read. I liked the diversity of the different essays in this anthology. I think it touched upon very different aspects of police brutality and violence in many communities. I also enjoyed the practical ways that people have switched away from relying on the police and the essays on the different community building actions.

I highly recommend for anyone to be honest! Content warning: mention of various Black and Latinx folks who were killed by police and how they were killed. Really heavy content that is necessary to read, but a content warning in case you are particularly prone to distress from reading those things.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Sexual violence

content warning: one essay deals with police violence with pregnant women, may be distressing for anyone who has experienced pregnancy or has trauma re: childbirth